Jorge Amado, A Morte e a Morte de Quincas Berro d’Água [The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell]

Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira (Independent Scholar - South America)

Ed. by Cara Levey, University College Cork
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 5.1.2: Brazilian Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Ben Bollig (University of Oxford), Cara Levey (University College Cork), Carolina Orloff (Independent Scholar - Europe)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1959

Places

Brazil (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novella

Resources

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Poet Vinicius de Moraes once hailed

A Morte e a Morte

as Amado’s most perfect achievement and critics agree that this is one of the writer’s most accomplished works in a long career. One of the editors at

Senhor

magazine, Carlos Scliar, commissioned the novella for its first issue in 1959. The author reportedly wrote it in less than a week.

Quincas

was subsequently released along with the novel

O Capitão-de-Longo-Curso

[Home Is the Sailor] in a single tome entitled

Os Velhos Marinheiros

[The Old Sailors], since both works dealt with an old man who dreamed of the sea. However, owing to its popularity,

Quincas

has been published as a separate volume since 1961. It is also one of Amado’s works most frequently adapted to other media, from film – including an Egyptian version,

Fallen

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Citation: Sellmann Oliveira, Mauricio. "A Morte e a Morte de Quincas Berro d’Água". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 26 October 2015 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=24418, accessed 25 April 2024.]

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